The Online Library is a part of the University of London
Select your study programme below to find out which databases you can access, or visit your Study Programme page for more details.
Please note: all Online Library databases are password protected. For further information see the passwords page.
To login, click the ‘Login’ button and then select University of London Online Library (Distance Learning). Then enter the part of your Portal username before the @ e.g. ab123
ABI/INFORM is a database covering business, management, economics and a wide range of related fields. It provides abstracts of material from 1971 onwards and over 2,000 titles in full text, from 1987 onwards.
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Updated daily, Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary database with full text coverage of almost 4,700 scholarly publications, including full text coverage of over 3,600 peer-reviewed journals dating as far back as 1975.
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Bibliographic database covering current literature relevant to Australian education including articles, conference papers, and reports by Australian authors or about Australian education published in overseas sources. Has links to the full text of documents where these are available online. Coverage from 1976 onwards.
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Bibliographic database covering journal literature on education and training. Also includes British Education Theses Index. Coverage from 1976 onwards.
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Cambridge University Press publishes a prestigious list of scholarly journals, ranging across the humanities, social sciences and STM disciplines, made available electronically through Cambridge Core. Our subscription also includes a small but growing collection of e-books in Cambridge Core.
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Defining Gender is a collection of original primary source material from British archives that explores the study of gender. This is a useful resource for History, English and Education students. The database is provided by Adam Matthew Digital.
The IOE UK Digital Education Repository Archive (DERA) is a digital archive of documents published electronically by government and other relevant bodies in the areas of education, training, children and families.
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As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations.
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This database is the most comprehensive available record of doctoral theses from the United Kingdom and Ireland, with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland, since 1716. There are no full-text dissertations in this database.
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E-book Central contains a growing collection of electronic textbooks. To suggest a book, please contact the Online Library Enquiry Service.
ERIC is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.
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This database provides access to abstracts and full text journal articles where indicated. Our subscription includes, but is not limited to, these journals:
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IngentaConnect offers one of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online - some 4 million articles from 11,000 publications.
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To login, click the ‘Login’ button and then select University of London Online Library (Distance Learning). Then enter the part of your Portal username before the @ e.g. ab123
A digital archive collection of core scholarly journals. It is unique in that complete archives of these journals have been digitised, starting with the very first issues, many of which were published as far back as the nineteenth century. The Online Library's subscription covers the Arts and Science Collections 1-15.
You can only log into this database using your student portal password.
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content. It currently includes 468,570 articles and 1,177,319 chapters by 265 publishers, on a wide variety of topics including education, history, literature, medicine, philosophy, economics, politics and technology.
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To login, click the ‘Login’ button and then select University of London Online Library (Distance Learning). Then enter the part of your Portal username before the @ e.g. ab123
SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. We subscribe to three collections in SAGE: the Education Collection, the Management and Organisation Studies Collection, and the Politics and International Relations Collection.
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When you login from the button above, you will be taken to the list of journals in Sage's Education Collection. The Education Collection contains 119 journals devoted to different topics within the field of education. It is one of three collections we have in Sage Journals Online.
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Full text access to over 3,800 peer reviewed journals in a wide range of subject areas, including education, health, psychology, business & management, economics and earth sciences. Full text access is limited to those titles we have selected and paid for.
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Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database from Elsevier, with over 91 million records.
"Quickly find relevant and authoritative research, identify experts and gain access to reliable data, metrics and analytical tools."
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The Online Library's subscription covers two collections of journals: the Science and Technology Collection, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Collection.
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The complete digital edition of The Times (London) 1785 - 1985.
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VLeBooks is the Online Library's principal e-book database, with over 3,000 titles on a wide variety of subjects.
For help reading e-books, see our E-books page and these frequently asked questions: